Example sentences of "[adv] how [pers pn] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were so many people in the room that you could not pass a needle between them , so how it was that the Gypsy Kings , carrying large musical instruments and followed by a television crew , came to arrive at the dinner table unmaimed , must remain a mystery for ever . |
| 2 | I wonder just how it is that the Daily Sport can advertise and sell Love Hearts , while youths who get caught selling counterfeit Es get arrested and charged with deception or ‘ going equipped to cheat ’ ? |
| 3 | Indeed , need and dare allow us to see even more clearly how it is that the modals fail to constitute a before-position with respect to the event expressed by the infinitive . |
| 4 | If we could say ‘ I know ’ only when we could also say exhaustively how it is that we know , it would create just as much a problem for the sophisticated philosopher as for those of us who are simpler . |
| 5 | The Miller knows himself : He recognizes too how it is that that his tale may offend the Reeve , and responds to the Reeve in conciliatory terms : Most pertinently , he eschews the generalization of the fabliau image of the world : The Reeve , too , in his Prologue , speaks more in relative than in absolute terms . |